Issue 116 Editorial

RADICAL SCOTTISH POLITICAL WRITING

Issue 116 Editorial

24th March 202024th March 20203 years ago SLR 4 min read 1130 Views

Working out where we go from here The outcome of the general election last year means Scotland enters yet another critical

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Editorial

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 9 min read 1400 Views

Regroup and resist – but how? Well, the polls were stunningly accurate so we well and truly had our ‘Friday the

Battered, bloodied and bruised: down but not out

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 4 min read 1397 Views

Richard Leonard says when the people speak, political parties must listen The election result was grave for Labour. Though we tried

Where and what now for the Scottish left?

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 4 min read 1165 Views

Kenny MacAskill offers suggestions on how to build a united anti-Tory, democratic alliance The elections over and the debacle has come

Independence, yes, but for whom and from what?

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 4 min read 1032 Views

Grahame Smith says resolving constitutional matters can unlock progress on social and economic issues After such a momentous election result, almost

Towards a constitutional crisis: Scotland and Britain after the general election

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 4 min read 871 Views

Michael Keating says choppy waters lie ahead for both defending and defeating the Union Once again, Scotland and England have diverged

Against the lie machines – Labour and anti-semitism

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 5 min read 1049 Views

Mike Cowley reviews ‘Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief’ (Pluto, September 2019) In conducting their research with

Responses to #GE2019

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 33 min read 850 Views

We asked a further range of left activists and commentators to provide their assessments of what happened and what we should

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COP25 ignores demands for climate justice

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 6 min read 864 Views

Mary Church argues COP26 in Glasgow in 2020 must be a rallying point for people and planet The outcomes of the

Why our peace movement must be intersectional

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 9 min read 809 Views

The word, pacifism, was coined in Scotland in the early twentieth century. Tim Gee asks if is it time to broaden

Microphones, megaphones and class

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 4 min read 1038 Views

Albert Brenchat Aguilar recounts the unseen and forgotten workers that make conference happen and their fightback I dish nibbles and pour

Surveying the unspoken concepts underpinning higher education

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 8 min read 963 Views

Reflecting on his experience of applying to university, Patrick Phillips gives a critical appraisal Last summer I applied to ‘attend’ university.

Feedback to the Editor

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 0 min read 889 Views

General election 2019 analysis We would welcome any responses to the analysis contained in this issue – what’s right, what’s wrong,

‘The Only Game in Town’ part 2 – the response as cover-up

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 4 min read 938 Views

Campbell Martin gives an update on his expose on the PPP scandal in North Ayrshire When ‘new’ Labour swept to power

Documentary Review

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 3 min read 998 Views

The Big Meeting (2019), director: Daniel Draper, editor: Christie Allanson Reviewed by Jackie Bergson The Big Meeting is a documentary by

Book Review

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 2 min read 964 Views

Gerry Hassan and Simon Barrow (eds.) Scotland the Brave? Twenty Years of Change and the Future of the Nation, 2019, Luath

Book Review

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 4 min read 1255 Views

Classic recounted: Edwin Muir’s Scottish Journey, Mainstream Publishing, new edition, 1996 Commented on by Rory Green Maggie Chapman reviewed James McEnaney’s

Book Review

17th January 202017th January 20203 years ago SLR 4 min read 1139 Views

Slavoj Žižek Sex and the Failed Absolute, Bloomsbury, 2019, £20.00 Reviewed by Sean Sheehan Žižek’s first English-language book, The Sublime Object

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Book Review

17th January 202019th June 20203 years ago SLR 4 min read 905 Views

Gardner Thompson, Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism and the Creation of Israel, Saqi Books, £20.00, 9780863563614 Reviewed by Sandy Hobbs Sixty

The Fight for a Human Future at the Frontier of Power

ion Tracker A data-led quest to make sense of politics

Brexit election tracker – at long last, the election is on!

15th November 20193 years ago SLR 8 min read 951 Views

Matthew Goodwin reveals the major trends trajectories to look out for in the run up to 12 December Britain is now

Obituary – John Kay, communist stalwart

15th November 201915th November 20193 years ago SLR 1 min read 1311 Views

It is with sadness that we note the death of John Kay, aged 94. He was one of the founders of

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